Actually the first word was "Denied.".  

As far as alternatives, none work, at least that I've been able to figure out.  After gmane came back up (it was down for 4 hours), I spent 2 hours trying to figure out how to access it via e-mail.  It supports web access, nntp, and RSS, but no e-mail that I've seen.  According to it's overview, it's designed to allow users to access a mailing list via these interfaces.

Any one who actually uses it as an e-mail gateway, please let me know.





-----Original Message-----
From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org
[mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Jima
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 8:20 PM
To: Mike Miller
Cc: TCLUG List
Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Yahoo mail access to this mailing list


  Was this email a joke?  If so, I apologize in advance.  If not...

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Bob Tanner wrote:
> *snip*
>
> Too bad we didn't have a brief explanation of your ideas about the issues
> before the vote.  You sent one word: "denied."  Then when the guy you
> treated so rudely responded in kind, he was attacked instead of you.

  He sent one word followed by a number of other paragraphs, the first of 
which was:

> Unless you can get poll up and get majority of subscribers to vote for 
> the removal of the yahoo ban.

  How is that rude?  He gave Wayne an alternative, and several suggestions 
on how to circumvent the ban (i.e., gmane).

> I don't have time to read the rest of your aimless message with all the
> exclamation points and one-word sentences, but it doesn't look any more
> productive than some of the other messages you've sent today.

  I'm not finding yours any more productive, considering you quoted Bob out 
of context and ignored the meat of his email.
  For the record, I pulled that quote out of this message, which I can only 
imagine you were attempting to refer to:

http://archives.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/2006-June/050017.html

  Despite Bob's claimed title, whenever an ethical or technical dilemma has 
come up on the list (as far as I can recall, at least), he's taken the 
issue to the list and gotten our opinion.  I recall this method being 
employed for the Yahoo/Hotmail ban, the Reply-To munging, whether messages 
should be deleted from the archive upon request...probably others, but I 
can't think of them off-hand.
  Since you didn't care to read his most recent email, I'll summarize: it 
was the background story of what led to the Yahoo ban.

      Jima

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